You mean "Mad as a wet hen"? Tell you a little story here. When I was a child and we went to visit my grandparents on their farm (hobby farm sort of) (bees, sheep, chickens, Guinea Hens, eggs, raspberries and potatoes and the famous Wisconsin Hickory Nut tree!). Anyhow, I was young enough to be stupid trying to be smart. 7-8! Well, Grandpa had taken an old tire and turned it inside out and made a watering trough for the chickens. On this particular day, I decided to teach the baby chicks how to swim in the water trough. I found out - chickens do not swim. Now if my grandmother was technically the mother of these baby chicks, which she had taken care of in the wash room off the house under the lights and all that and had just set them out to be in the pen with the other chickens to become layers and she could sell the eggs and found dead chickies in the water trough - it could be said of my dear sweet granny that SHE WAS MADDER'N A WET HEN!!!!! It probably came from her!
Is that sort of what you meant???????? Edie